Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy: Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution

Silvana Greco

book: Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Moses Dobruska and the Invention of Social Philosophy

Utopia, Judaism, and Heresy under the French Revolution

Silvana Greco
Funded by: Freie Universität Berlin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758825

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This book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gained wide recognition at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and then emigrated to France to join the French Revolution.
Dobruska, who took on the name Junius Frey during his Parisian sojourn, barely survived his book. Accused of conspiring on behalf of foreign powers, he was guillotined on April 5, 1794, at the height of The Terror, on the same day as Georges Jacques Danton.
From Dobruska's ideas, which were widely used between the late eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century without attribution to their author, emerge some of the key concepts of the social sciences as we know them today. An enthusiastic and unfortunate revolutionary and sometimes a brilliant theorist, Moses Dobruska deserves a role of his own in the history of sociology.

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Silvana Greco, Freie Universität Berlin, Adjunct Professor of Sociology of Judaism, Berlin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Moses Dobruska: Rise and Fall of an Alternative Hero Open Access Download PDF	20
3 The Philosophie Sociale of 1793: A New Thought Open Access Download PDF	30
4 Man and Society Open Access Download PDF	81
5 Democracy, Aristocracy, or Monarchy? Representative Democracy Open Access Download PDF	114
6 Happiness Open Access Download PDF	127
7 Reception and Influence of the Philosophie Sociale Open Access Download PDF	144
8 Concluding Remarks Open Access Download PDF	180
Appendix 1: Glossary of the Universal Constitution Open Access Download PDF	187
Appendix 2: The Seventy Principles of the Universal Constitution Open Access Download PDF	193
Appendix 3: The German Draft of the Philosophie Sociale Open Access Download PDF	203
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	207
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	217
Index of Concepts Open Access Download PDF	223

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in the field of Social Sciences, Sociology, Early Modern History, Jewish Studies, and Social Philosophy.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 225
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 2
Keywords: History of sociological thought; Social Philosophy; Intellectual History; French Revolution; Constitutional Theories; Early Modern Jewry

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Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110758825

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Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110673531